Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-09-01

THE WEST
TIE two large barns OF William Mics q
! Sons at Hastings, Mimi, were struck by
lightning the other night and burned to the
| ground Twenty Norman horses persisted
| in the flames and 700 tons OF hay burned
| Total loss, $4,000.
| THE steam barge Whitney and schooner
| Ashland, loaded with iron ore, went ashore
| one mile this side OF Port Hope, Mich, the
| other night during the thick weather
| OLD LEVI RosENFELD's will was read on
the 22d at Chicago. The will was so ar
| ranged that the creditors of Maurice Rosen
| field would be unable to obtain anything.
| REV. CHARLES T. Goss, pastor OF Evange
/ list Moody's old Chicago church and de-
| fender Of working girls, has been forced 70
| resign because of divisions in the church.
| THE three eldest children of the late A.
A. Talmage, manager of the Wabash rail
road, have determined to contest his will
Talmage left his property to his wife, the
stepmother OF the contestants.
CAPTAIN ANDERSON and four sailors, COM
posing the crew of the schooner Gessine,
were found the other morning clinging to
| the outer breakwater with seas constantly
washing over them, at Michigan City, Ind.
The vessel had gone to pieces
THE Aurora, the largest wooden vessel
on the great chain of lakes, was launched
at Cleveland, O., recently. Her beam is
depth 261< feet. She is equipped with a
1000 horsepower double cylinder engine.
GOVERNOR BARTLETT, Of California, was
said to be hopelessly suffering from stroke
of paralysis on the 23d. He was elected to
the of1ice last November on the Democratic
ticket.
EIGHT of the Bald Knobbers on trial at
Ozark, Mo-, pleaded guilty on the 23d to
whipping various persons. Others also
pleaded guilty to acts of lawlessness.
A PASSENGER train was derailed near Lin
coin, ILL.,, recently, on the Peoria, Decatur
& Evansville railroad. No one was hurt.
On examination it was found that mis-
creants had removed the fish plates and
spikes.
Two thousand quarrymen working near
Youngstown, O., struck the other day for
increas cd wages and semi-monthly pay
ments.
THE two-master Manistee went ashore
near Millers, Mich, recently. No trace of
the crew had been found.
The largest comet that has appeared for
many years was visible on the northern
sky from points in Indiana on the night of
the oath.
Iowa Republicans, in convention at Des
Moines on the oath, renominated Governor
William Larrabee. For Supreme Judge,
George s. Robinson; for Superintendent of
Public Instruction, Henry Sabin. No in
QOrSomenC IOr Inc FreSlQenCy was maUS-
THE completion of the Manitoba road to
Fort Benton has ruined river traffic on the
Upper Missouri The only river traffic that
will amount to any thing will be between
Bismarck and Sioux City with headQuar-
tiers at Pierre, Oak.
THE Toledo Peoria & Western officials
have refunded the amount expended for
Niagara excursion tickets to persons in
Hancock County, ILL.,, who were in the
Chatsworth wreck. No suits for damage
to person or effects have been commenced
by any survivors in Hancock County.
MCHENRY & Co., dealers in gas fixtures,
Cincinnati, have been caught for $50, OO0
which they gave on a mortgage to Mitchell,
Vance & Co., of New York, who failed re-
Gently.
The annual meeting of the National Ed
itorial Association has finally been fixed for
Denver, Col, September ID.
THE union seamen OF Chicago have made
a demand for 81. 40 per day.
GALEsBURG, Ill, is shaken up at the APP
pearance of a peculiar disease among
cattle. The cattle are taken i'll suddenly
and will stagger around for few moments
and then lay down and die.
ALL the wires of the Postal Telegraph
Company have been removed from the Chi
cago Board of Trade. The president of the
board says the Postal Company was not
furnish market quotations to bucket shops,
but was preparing to extend its business
of that class.
THE schooner Clara, of Manistee, was
driven ashore in Lake Erie recently and
her wreckage was strewn along the beach
for miles. Captain Olson, her master and
owner, and one of the sailors lost their
lives
PROF II. S. WHITNEY, of the Excelsior
Academy, on the shore of Lake Minneton-
ka, Mimi, was drowned in the lake the
other afternoon. Three children were
playing on a raft which went to pieces, and
he swimming out to save them, became
entangled in the weeds and was drowned.
Two of the children were rescued alive, the
third was drowned.
GOVERNOR MARTIN, of Kansas. has re-
voked his quarantine proclaimed against
Illinois cattle, except in so far as it applies
to Cook County. Cattle shipped from Cook
County will be held in quarantine at Kan
sas City ninety days.
Texas fever has broken out among the
cattle at Fleischman's distillery, River
side, near Cincinnati, and seven have died
and twenty more are sick with the disease
The thirteenth annual convention of the
National Conference of Charities and Cor
rections opened at Boyd's Opera House,
Omaha, Neb., on the 25th.
THE SOUTH.
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